Loaded toy ball



(No Model.)

C. E. GOODSPEED.

LOADED TOY BALL.

No. 454,544. Patented June 23, 1891.

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vwl BLU/Y@ UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICE CHARLES E. GOODSPEED, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LOAD ED TOY BALL.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 454,544, dated June 23, 1891.

Application led February 24, 1891. Serial No. 382,420. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. GOOD- SPEED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loaded Toy Balls, which are fully set forth in the following specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof and in which- Figure l shows my improved toy ball in perspective on a level surface, with a fragment thereof broken out of its shell so as to expose the interior part provided with a weight, which said weight is also shown in section. Fig. 2 shows the same in perspective on an inclined plane, with its interior surface and weight thereon indicated in dotted lines.

Like letters refer to like parts.

The object of my invention is to produce a toy in the form of a ball made of a light shell which is loaded on its interior surface at some point with a fixed weight, whereby peculiar' and interesting motions not possible in other balls may be displayed which will be both interesting and instructive, as well as amusing, especially so because the construction is entirely invisible.

To attain said desired end I construct a spherical shell ce of any light material which may be suitable for the purpose, as wood, Celluloid, &c., and attach to the interior surface of the shell at any point a weight b, preferably a small one of heavy material, as lead,

fastened by any well-known means, as asuitable cement or a screw c, or both. This practically completes the entire construction of my said new toy ball, which, as above stated, will manifest various peculiarities not observable in balls not so made-aa for instance, when such a ball is rolled it will have a peculiar jerky motion which will soon arrestits progress, after which it will rock to and fro until it'cornes to rest, and if spun like a top it will have another motion peculiar to this construction. It will not roll on an inclined plane of its own weight, and if rolled or spun on such a surface will show still other peculiar motions due to such conditions, and so on, all of which are very much more interesting and pleasing, because much greater, than can possibly be produced by asolidball loaded from. the outside and in which the construction is easily detected, and thus deprived of a great portion of its interest.

What I claim is- A ball or toy consisting of aspherical shell loaded with a iixed weight at one point on the interior of said shell, substantially as specified.

CHARLES E. GOODSPEED.

Witnesses:

WM. ZIMMERMAN, ANTON FONGNER. 

